Eros
pronunciation
How to pronounce Eros in British English:
UK [ˈɪərɒs]
How to pronounce Eros in American English:
US [ ˈɪrɑːs,ˈerɑːs]
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- Noun:
- (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid
Word Origin
- Eros (n.)
- god of love, late 14c., from Greek eros (plural erotes), "god or personification of love," literally "love," from eran "to love," erasthai "to love, desire," which is of uncertain origin. Freudian sense of "urge to self-preservation and sexual pleasure" is from 1922. Ancient Greek distinguished four ways of love: erao "to be in love with, to desire passionately or sexually;" phileo "have affection for;" agapao "have regard for, be contented with;" and stergo, used especially of the love of parents and children or a ruler and his subjects.
Example
- 1. Tell me of a period in art when eros was not a force in human creativity .
- 2. Yellow roses , signifying friendship more than eros , seemed right , given the complex potentials of the evening .
- 3. A few feet away , a bronze eros looks bemused at the fact that he was exhumed north of kabul instead of in rome .
- 4. Natural selection allowed science to deny any sort of eros or transcendent / emergent drive in nature .
- 5. Image courtesy usgs eros data center , based on data provided by the landsat science team .